Re: Command-line anomoly V2.3.35

[(no name)]

> > IMHO, programs that depend on overwriting argv members without regard to
> > checking for buffer overflows are broken, especially from a portability
> > standpoint.  The space for the args is allocated on the user stack at
> > exec time, and the limits are stored in the mm struct for the task (this
> > is from binfmt_elf.c).  If you exceed that space you will spill into the
> > space for the environment variables.
> >
> 
> Yes, but who checks environment variables anyway? <grin>

did you ever link your progs against (g)libc ? <g>

Bye
Richard